Cited Authorities

Behind every successful legal career is a series of decisions that never made it onto a résumé. Cited Authorities features conversations with accomplished lawyers, and the leaders who shape their field, about career inflection points, professional judgment, reputation, leadership, and the real stories behind professional success. Excellent legal careers are not accidents. Hear the stories of how they were built.

Cited Authorities is a business podcast hosted by Alexander Powell, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alexander Powell hosts Cited Authorities, a business show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  Terry Lemons: White House Reporter, IRS Insider, Baseball Historian

  Jul 23, 202630 minS1

  Terry Lemons spent more than 26 years at the IRS, 11 of them leading communications for the agency. Before that he covered the 1992 presidential campaign, Congress, and the White House as a newspaper reporter. Today he handles public relations at Frost Law, and he just wrote a book about the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals. He joined the IRS in 1998, right after the Roth hearings had put the agency through the wringer, and he stayed through six commissioners from Charles Rossotti to Danny Werfel. Around 2002 he built the Dirty Dozen, the IRS list of tax scams that still runs every year. As he tells it: "I branded it. . . . Went back to that old movie called The Dirty Dozen, and came up with 12 tax scams." We talk about why he left reporting to go inside government, how he tried to humanize an agency people love to hate, and why he thinks so many taxpayers get pulled into scams. "That tax refund for a lot of people is the biggest single financial transaction they make all year," he says, and that is exactly what the scammers count on. Then we get to baseball. His new book is "The Year St. Louis Became a Baseball Town: The Cardinals, Babe Ruth, and the 1926 World Series. He walks through the story behind Grover Cleveland Alexander, Branch Rickey inventing the minor league system, and a game seven that ended with Babe Ruth caught stealing second base. Terry's book: The Year St. Louis Became a Baseball Town (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Midwest local bookstores) Show notes: citedauthorities.com/episodes/terry-lemons 0:00 Cold open 0:13 Introduction 1:07 Covering the 1992 Clinton campaign 3:46 Leaving journalism for the IRS in 1998 6:38 Making the news instead of reporting it 7:42 Creating the Dirty Dozen 9:50 Tax scams, refunds, and TikTok 11:49 What drew him to journalism 13:36 Huntley, Brinkley, and wartime Washington 14:41 Movie knowledge and the Oscars swag bags 15:28 Humanizing the IRS 17:22 Six commissioners, one playbook 20:06 The gasoline in the tank of the government 20:50 The 1926 Cardinals book 23:34 Hornsby, Alexander, Rickey, and Ruth 25:18 1926 vs. the 2025 World Series 28:16 What readers will take away 29:26 Closing Cited Authorities is a legal interview podcast hosted by Alexander Powell, tax attorney in Washington, DC. New episodes every other Wednesday. All episodes and show notes: https://citedauthorities.com The Cited Authorities podcast is produced by Cited Authorities LLC, a media and software company. It is not a law firm. This episode is general information and commentary, not legal advice, and listening does not create an attorney-client relationship. The views expressed are those of the speakers alone and do not represent any firm, employer, or client. If you need advice on your situation, talk to a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction. Cited Authorities is independent. Support the show to help keep it that way. Sign-up for the Cited Authorities Newsletter . SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Website: citedauthorities.com

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  Episode #9

  John Pontius – From the JAG Corps to Founding a Tax Law Firm

  Jun 24, 202625 minS1

  John Pontius is the founder of Pontius Tax Law, PLLC. He started as an Army JAG officer, deployed to Iraq with the 1st Armored Division, earned a Tax LL.M. from Georgetown on the GI Bill, and worked in the international corporate tax group at KPMG before starting his own firm eight years ago. We talk about building a tax controversy practice, the three-question test he uses to decide whether to take a case, how military training shows up in running a small firm, and what he'd tell a young lawyer thinking about going out on their own. John's firm: Pontius Tax Law, PLLC Show notes: citedauthorities.com/episodes/john-pontius Sign-up for the Cited Authorities Newsletter SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Website: citedauthorities.com

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  Episode #8

  Pamela Gilbert: The Attorney Fighting for Consumer Safety

  Jun 10, 202635 min

  Pamela Gilbert spent years pressuring federal agencies from the outside, at U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen's Congress Watch. Then she ran one. As Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, she answered to Congress, industry, and a career staff, and learned what changes when the outside advocate becomes the implementer. In this episode: the path from Tufts activism to Ralph Nader's network, how a small, underfunded agency drives outsized impact through recalls and the bully pulpit, what agency independence really protects, the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, the anti-monopoly movement, and the decades-long corporate effort to shut the courthouse doors to regular people. Pamela Gilbert is a Partner at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery and LaDuca in Washington, DC. She chairs the board of the American Antitrust Institute and serves on the board of the National Consumers League. Sign-up for the Cited Authorities Newsletter SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Website: citedauthorities.com

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  Glen Frost: Building Frost Law and Practicing Tax Controversy

  May 27, 202623 minS0

  <p>Episode 7 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Glen Frost, Founder and Managing Partner of Frost Law.<br/><br/>Glen is an attorney, a CPA, and a Certified Financial Planner, with an LL.M. in Taxation. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He started as a solo practitioner and built Frost Law into an 80-plus person multidisciplinary firm of attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents, and Certified Fraud Examiners.<br/><...

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  Episode #6

  Fred Brown – Leading UBalt Law's Graduate Tax Program

  May 13, 202632 minS1

  <p>Episode 6 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Fred Brown, Director of the Graduate Tax Program at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 1990.<br/>Fred started as an electrical engineer at Rutgers, went to Georgetown Law for his JD summa cum laude, then to NYU Law for his Tax LLM. He spent two years at Shaw Pittman in DC and taught as an acting assistant professor at NYU before joining UBalt in fall 1990. He has coached UBalt Law's tax moot court team for over 30 years and co-authored Understanding Taxation of Business Entities with Professor Walter Schwidetzky. In this...

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